Biology:Paranursallia

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Paranursallia is an extinct genus of nursalline pycnodont fish that lived during the Late Cretaceous epoch.

Distribution


Fossilised remains of Paranursallia spinosa are known from Tunisia,[1] while those of Paranursallia gutturosa are known from Mexico,[2] Italy,[3] and Morocco.[1]

A fossil of a short bodied fish, Paranursallia gutturosa, Late Cretaceous, Akrabou Fm., Gara es Sbaa, Morocco
Paranursallia gutturosa (Arambourg, 1854[4]), Late Cretaceous, Akrabou Fm., Gara es Sbaa, Morocco

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Taverne, Louis; Layeb, Mohsen; Layeb-Tounsi, Yosra; Gaudant, Jean (2015). "Paranursallia spinosa n. gen., n. sp., a new Upper Cretaceous pycnodontiform fish from the Eurafrican Mesogea" (in en). Geodiversitas 37 (2): 215–227. doi:10.5252/g2015n2a3. ISSN 1280-9659. http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.5252/g2015n2a3. 
  2. Pacheco-Ordaz, S.; Reyes-López, Á.; Alvarado-Ortega, J. (2025). "A Turonian pycnodontiform fish from the San José de Gracia quarry, Puebla, Mexico". Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 77 (1): A241224. doi:10.18268/BSGM2023v77n1a241224. 
  3. AMALFITANO, JACOPO; GIUSBERTI, LUCA; FORNACIARI, ELIANA; CARNEVALE, GIORGIO (2020-04-03). "Upper Cenomanian Fishes from the Bonarelli Level (Oae2) of Northeastern Italy" (in en). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 126 (2): Vol. 126 No 2 (2020). doi:10.13130/2039-4942/13224. https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/13224. 
  4. "Paranursallia gutturosa (Arambourg, 1954)" (in en-US). 2023-09-14. https://www.thefossilforum.com/collections-database/chordata/fishes/paranursallia-gutturosa-arambourg-1954-r2313/. 

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